Chimenti (broken hand - 30 days)
Caceres (thigh strain - 15 days)
Grygera (calf strain - 7 days)
Giovinco (thigh strain - 40 days)
Trezeguet (calf strain - 20 days)

Injury list from last season: http://juventus.theoffside.com/team-news/c....html#more-2673

Unbelievable

Competitive games missing per player (out of potential 50):

25 - Salihamidzic
21 - Caceres
20 - Giovinco
15 - Chimenti
14 - Buffon
14 - Del Piero
13 - Marchisio
12 - Poulsen
11 - Trezeguet
10 - Sissoko
9 - Tiago (loaned out in Jan)
9 - Camoranesi
8 - Chiellini
7 - Grygera
7 - Zebina
6 - Cannavaro
6 - Amauri
6 - Paolucci
4 - Iaquinta
3 - Diego
2 - Manninger
1 - Melo
1 - Grosso
1 - De Ceglie

For us to succeed next season we need to do better in this department, more than 90% seem to be muscular problems. We have hired Samp's fitness coach who is supposed to be a guru on muscular treatment, so fingers crossed.

The season hasn't started too well though, Buffon thinks he will be out until January 2011 with his sciatic nerve problem after surgery....

Full new technical staff:

Head Coach: Luigi Del Neri
Asst.Coach: Francesco Conti
Field Assistant: Maurizio D'Angelo
Goalkeeping Coach: Claudio Filippi
Fitness Coach: Roberto De Bellis
Fitness Coach: Luca Alimonta

Fabrizio Tencone - Medical Affairs Coordinator
Gianluca Stesina - Sanitary Manager of the Senior Squad
Luca Stefanini - Senior Squad Doctor
Alfonso Casano - Masseur/Physiotherapist
Dario Garbiero - Masseur/Physiotherapist
Marco Luison - Masseur/Physiotherapist
Emanuele Randelli - Masseur/Physiotherapist
Gianluca Scolaro - Masseur/Physiotherapist

Roberto De Bellis is the guy I was talking about.

Gianluigi Buffon - sciatic nerve operation - return: ~ Oct-Nov 2010
Alex Manninger - calf strain - return: Aug 2010
Vincenzo Iaquinta - left thigh strain - return: ~Sept 2010

and so it begins :-p

Bloody hell... the strains continue. At least Storari is there now or else Juve would be absolutely screwed in goal.

Gianluigi Buffon - back - 16 weeks
Jorge Martinez - knee ligament - 4-6 weeks
Iaquinta - thigh - 2 weeks
Amauri - thigh - 2-3 weeks
Claudio Marchisio - thigh - 1 week

Gianluigi Buffon - 15 weeks - back
Jorge Martinez - 5 weeks - knee ligament
Armand Traoré - 4 weeks - calf
Amauri - 2 weeks - thigh
Mohamed Sissoko - 1 week - sickness

Gianluigi Buffon - 14 weeks - back
Jorge Martinez - 4 weeks - knee ligament
Armand Traoré - 3 weeks - calf
Paolo De Ceglie - 2 weeks - groin
Amauri - 3-5 days - thigh

Will it ever dip below 5 players

I'd take 5 players all season tbh, it's been a lot worse at times Only Arsenal have been worse maybe in the last year.

Only cos Newcastle have been relegated for a year, they are the ultimate benchmark

Jorge Martinez - 12 weeks - fractured metatarsal
Paolo De Ceglie - 12 weeks - fractured patella
Gianluigi Buffon - 10 weeks - back
Alex Manninger - 4 weeks - thigh
Zdenek Grygera - 3 weeks - thigh
Armand Traoré - 3 weeks - calf
Amauri - 1 week - thigh
Vincenzo Iaquinta - 1 week - glutes
Giorgio Chiellini - 1 week - calf

Gutted for PDC and Martinez, especially the former, we basically have no options now. FUCK OUR INJURY RECORD!

De Ceglie and Martinez out... wow. Pepe at left back again then? Bad timing for both personally as well, as Martinez has impressed the last couple games and De Ceglie is finally winning a starting role.

Buffon still needs 10 weeks more to return?

Haven't seen Traore play a single minute this season...

Good that Amauri played some minutes last weekend and Iaquinta + Chiellini are coming back soon...

It's probably less now, in January after the winter break hopefully.

Juve injury crisis deepens



No fewer than 14 players are injured for Juventus' Europa League clash with Salzburg tomorrow night, leaving Gigi Del Neri with little room to maneuvre.

Discounting the players from the Primavera and the fourth choice goalkeeper, Del Neri only has 11 players to choose from in his 25-man squad.

La Gazzetta dello Sport understands it could be worse as well because Felipe Melo and Momo Sissoko trained apart from the rest of the squad yesterday.

Both players were complaining of severe muscle fatigue and it remains to be seen whether Del Neri risks the midfield duo on Thursday evening.

It's now practically certain that Fabio Grosso and Hasan Salihamidzic will be reintegrated into the squad for Sunday's match against Cesena in Serie A.

Del Neri tried Grosso at left-back in training yesterday and also experimented with Salihamidzic on the opposite side, although Simone Pepe is still being given lessons at full-back.

Jorge Martinez - 12 weeks - fractured metatarsal
Paolo De Ceglie - 12 weeks - fractured patella
Gianluigi Buffon - 8 weeks - back
Alex Manninger - 4 weeks - thigh
Zdenek Grygera - 3 weeks - thigh
Armand Traoré - unknown - calf
Davide Lanzafame - 2 weeks - calf
Amauri - unknown - thigh
Vincenzo Iaquinta - 1 week - glutes
Momo Sissoko - unknown - ?
Giorgio Chiellini - unknown - calf
Milos Krasic - unknown - ?
Nicola Legrottaglie - unknown - ?
Felipe Melo - unknown - thigh

FML

Del Neri has defensive headache

Juventus’ injury crisis is so bad that 18-year-old Frederik Hillesborg Sorensen may have to start in defence on Sunday.

The young Dane, signed from Second Division Lyngby over the summer, is in contention to play after Nicola Legrottaglie picked up an injury on Thursday.

The latter’s loss is the latest blow to a defence which has been decimated by injuries in recent weeks.

Giorgio Chiellini suffered a physical problem in the warm-up at Milan last Saturday, while fellow centre-back Leandro Rinaudo is also sidelined.

Add in the fact that full-backs Zdenek Grygera, Paolo De Ceglie and Armand Traore are unavailable too and Del Neri has a defence to invent.

The only certainties right now are that Marco Motta will start on the right, with Leonardo Bonucci in the centre.

At left-back, Fabio Grosso could be re-integrated although there is the option of fielding Simone Pepe there instead.

If Sorensen doesn’t convince Del Neri of his ability ahead of the Cesena tie, then there is the possibility of fielding central midfielder Felipe Melo at the back.

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Oh dear

Krasic is injured too, no Jay? This is just crazy...

Yeah, hopefully he is back this weekend though.

Chiellini should be back also.

lol read del neri saying that juve's injury crisis is so horrid that he'd go on the field to play if hes younger

It's Asterix!

Holy shit, he is Asterix

Quagliarella - 120-180 days - knee ligament
Toni - 25-30 days - knee strain
Iaquinta - 14-25 days - thigh strain
De Ceglie - 14-25 days - knee ligament
Rinaudo - 10-15 days - back strain
Martinez - 7-10 days - thigh strain
Sissoko - 7-10 days - quad inflammation
Amauri - 2-5 days - broken nose

Del Piero has a contusion edema in his knee (think it is water around the ligament) but should be ok, we are monitoring him.

We could actually have every forward at the club out injured this weekend.

Haven't bumped this for a while, but seeing as everyone else is

We have 9 players currently injured:

Quagliarella - April earliest
Giandonato - March
Motta - late Feb
De Ceglie - mid-late Feb
Traoré - mid-late Feb
Rinaudo - mid Feb
Marchisio - 3-4 days
Iaquinta - 3-4 days
Pepe - 2-3 days

After 31 rounds, here's how it looks and possible return dates:

Paolo De Ceglie - 32° (uncertain)
Gianluigi Buffon - 33°
Marco Motta - 33°
Giorgio Chiellini - 34°
Momo Sissoko - season over
Leandro Rinaudo - season over
Fabio Quagliarella - season over
Vincenzo Iaquinta - season over

Vincenzo Iaquinta - left knee meniscus strain - 40 days
Simone Pepe - thigh strain - 10 days
Fabio Quagliarella - thigh muscle fatigue - 7 days
Jorge Martinez - thigh muscle fatigue - 7 days
Luca Toni - hamstring strain - 5 days

Iaquinta

+ Alessandro Matri - calf - 14 days



And so it begins...

Krasic out for up to a month

It really is pathetic...

Vucinic out for 20 days with a thigh injury.

The first, and hopefully the last of our notable injuries this season.

Injuries 2 and 3 come in:

Marchisio - 3 weeks
Pepe - 1-2 weeks

That's not bad for late January. We will miss these two, but I believe we have enough to replace them. We have been lucky so far with injuries (touch wood). I wonder if our high intensity training and game performances are a reason why we have suffered less muscular injuries than the last 3-4 seasons?

Barzagli and Chiellini both out for 20 days simultaneously.

Congratulations on your scudetto, Milan.

just wow....

Chiellini might be back earlier, but we're ruined either way. In the most difficult part of the season.